Proposal
For my project, I wish to do a report on Nikola Tesla and his discoveries. Not many people know about Tesla, but I believe he deserves more credit. After all, he IS the inventor of the electrical power we widely use today: AC power. Had Edison, who is always credited for popularizing electricity, gotten his way with DC power, electricity as we know it would be very different and impractical. There are several transgressions between the two, and I find it very interesting that two famous people of the same field feuded. It is normally the opposite, as shown with the one time Mozart and Beethoven met. I plan to do what, in Layman's Terms, could be described as a biography. I will go over his early life and several minor inventions in brief. Afterwards, a large section of the report will focus on Tesla's feud with Edison, and highlight the difference between their different currents. Hopefully, this will enlighten everyone about Tesla.
Sources "Nikola Tesla." World of Invention. Gale, 2006. Science in Context. Web. 29 Dec. 2013 "Tesla's Biography." Tesla's Biography. Tesla Memorial Society of New York, n.d. Web. 29 Dec. 2013. <http://www.teslasociety.com/biography.htm>.
Research Outline
Brandon Gaudreau. I'll just paste the whole thing.
Nikola Tesla was an inventor whom I believe deserves much more credit than he already does. Not only did he invent out modern form of electricity: AC power, but also patented over 700 fascinating inventions.
Tesla was born on July 10th, 1856 in Croatia. He was already in the science industry per se, as his mother was an inventor of household appliances. Tesla, at age 17, studied at several different colleges. He originally intended to specialize in physics and math, but became enthralled by electricity.
After that, Tesla began to work as an electrical engineer with a phone company in 1881. Around the same time, he developed the idea for the polyphase synchronous series. More on that later. At the time, everything was powered by DC power, invented by Thomas Edison. This power was impractical because it used brushes which sparked when the motors spun, resulting in minimum voltage. Concurrently, Tesla developed his own method, AC power. With it, the motor converted the impulses of a direction that constantly alternated its path into a spinning motion in one direction. The main kick to AC is that it could run at high voltages without sparking, a main drawback to DC. AC had the potential to be much more powerful as a result.
Tesla soon began to work at Edison's lab. While he respected his work, he was just as indifferent to the idea of AC power as the Europeans that Tesla had originally proposed it to. Despite this, Edison still saw its potential, and did not want to lose control of his monopoly. This led to a legendary rivalry, and Tesla quit in 1885 over pay.
After this, Edison launched an all-out war against AC, with one of his most notorious stunts being killing an elephant with AC power, Despite all his attempts, Tesla's current, due to its potential to renew itself, won the war.
After his victory, Tesla developed more polyphase motors, generators, and transformers that all ran on AC power, making them the first of their kind. A man named George Westinghouse bought all of them because he wanted to supply America with Tesla's power. It worked, and Tesla soon became one of the most celebrated figures in the American press.
Later on, Tesla discovered the rotating magnetic field, which is essential to physics and AC devices, and also designed the first hydroelectric power plant in Niagara Falls in 1895, fulfilling one of his dreams. Afterwards, though, things started to go downhill. In 1915, both Tesla and Edison were slated to receive the Nobel Prize in physics, but neither did. This is presumably because Tesla, remembering the war, refused it because he didn't want to share it with Edison. He spent the rest of his years in a hotel room, isolated. He died quietly on January 7th, 1943. Only now is he getting the credit he rightfully deserves, but more people could still help to be enlightened about the brilliance of Nikola Tesla.
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For my project, I wish to do a report on Nikola Tesla and his discoveries. Not many people know about Tesla, but I believe he deserves more credit. After all, he IS the inventor of the electrical power we widely use today: AC power. Had Edison, who is always credited for popularizing electricity, gotten his way with DC power, electricity as we know it would be very different and impractical. There are several transgressions between the two, and I find it very interesting that two famous people of the same field feuded. It is normally the opposite, as shown with the one time Mozart and Beethoven met. I plan to do what, in Layman's Terms, could be described as a biography. I will go over his early life and several minor inventions in brief. Afterwards, a large section of the report will focus on Tesla's feud with Edison, and highlight the difference between their different currents. Hopefully, this will enlighten everyone about Tesla.
Sources
"Nikola Tesla." World of Invention. Gale, 2006. Science in Context. Web. 29 Dec. 2013
"Tesla's Biography." Tesla's Biography. Tesla Memorial Society of New York, n.d. Web. 29 Dec. 2013. <http://www.teslasociety.com/biography.htm>.
Research Outline
Brandon Gaudreau. I'll just paste the whole thing.
Nikola Tesla was an inventor whom I believe deserves much more credit than he already does. Not only did he invent out modern form of electricity: AC power, but also patented over 700 fascinating inventions.
Tesla was born on July 10th, 1856 in Croatia. He was already in the science industry per se, as his mother was an inventor of household appliances. Tesla, at age 17, studied at several different colleges. He originally intended to specialize in physics and math, but became enthralled by electricity.
After that, Tesla began to work as an electrical engineer with a phone company in 1881. Around the same time, he developed the idea for the polyphase synchronous series. More on that later. At the time, everything was powered by DC power, invented by Thomas Edison. This power was impractical because it used brushes which sparked when the motors spun, resulting in minimum voltage. Concurrently, Tesla developed his own method, AC power. With it, the motor converted the impulses of a direction that constantly alternated its path into a spinning motion in one direction. The main kick to AC is that it could run at high voltages without sparking, a main drawback to DC. AC had the potential to be much more powerful as a result.
Tesla soon began to work at Edison's lab. While he respected his work, he was just as indifferent to the idea of AC power as the Europeans that Tesla had originally proposed it to. Despite this, Edison still saw its potential, and did not want to lose control of his monopoly. This led to a legendary rivalry, and Tesla quit in 1885 over pay.
After this, Edison launched an all-out war against AC, with one of his most notorious stunts being killing an elephant with AC power, Despite all his attempts, Tesla's current, due to its potential to renew itself, won the war.
After his victory, Tesla developed more polyphase motors, generators, and transformers that all ran on AC power, making them the first of their kind. A man named George Westinghouse bought all of them because he wanted to supply America with Tesla's power. It worked, and Tesla soon became one of the most celebrated figures in the American press.
Later on, Tesla discovered the rotating magnetic field, which is essential to physics and AC devices, and also designed the first hydroelectric power plant in Niagara Falls in 1895, fulfilling one of his dreams. Afterwards, though, things started to go downhill. In 1915, both Tesla and Edison were slated to receive the Nobel Prize in physics, but neither did. This is presumably because Tesla, remembering the war, refused it because he didn't want to share it with Edison. He spent the rest of his years in a hotel room, isolated. He died quietly on January 7th, 1943. Only now is he getting the credit he rightfully deserves, but more people could still help to be enlightened about the brilliance of Nikola Tesla.
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